Lyser Ort Lighthouse
Oviši Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Oviši, Latvia near Tārgale on the Courland Peninsula coast of the Baltic Sea.- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Latvia
- Also known as: “Oviai Lighthouse”, “Ovisi Lighthouse”, “Oviši lighthouse”, “Oviši Lighthouse”, “Ovīši Lighthouse”, “Ovišu bāka”, and “Ovīšu bāka”
- Address: Oviši, Tārgales pagasts, Ventspils novads, LV-3601
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oviši and Irbene.
Irbene
Village
Photo: Powermelon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Irbene is a ghost town in Ance parish, northwestern Latvia. In 1971, the Soviet Union established a secret radar center "Звезда" and built a settlement for military officers and their families, naming it Irbene because of nearby river Irbe. Irbene is situated 9 km east of Lyser Ort Lighthouse.
Lūžņa
Village
Lūžņa is a populated place in Tārgale parish, Ventspils municipality, Latvia, one of the twelve Livonian villages on the Livonian coast. Lūžņa was a long fishing hamlet at the coast of the Baltic Sea about 30 kilometers from Ventspils in the direction of Kolka. Lūžņa is situated 10 km east of Lyser Ort Lighthouse.
Lyser Ort Lighthouse
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Tārgales pagasts, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5687° or 57° 34′ 7″ northLongitude
21.71589° or 21° 42′ 57″ eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
9G93HP98+F9OpenStreetMap ID
way 933319242OpenStreetMap feature
building=lighthouseOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
12089037Wikidata ID
Q16348532
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Polish—“Lyser Ort Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare d’Oviši”
- French: “Phare d’Oviši”
- German: “Leuchtturm Ovīši”
- German: “Ovisu Leuchtturm”
- Latvian: “Ovišu bāka”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska Ovišu”
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